Black Boys Rebellion — 250 years in the making

A group of Black Boys Rebellion re-enactors fire their muskets last November in Fort Loudon as part of a living-history lesson on colonial life and early armed resistance to British rule.(Photo: File Photo)

FORT LOUDON >> The southern and eastern part of Pennsylvania is no stranger to bearing witness to some of the most historic moments in our country's history — Gettysburg, Valley Forge and Philadelphia to name a few that hosted history-making occasions.

But many might not know that Chambersburg played a small part in the grand scheme of developing this nation. Fort Loudon, which sits west of Chambersburg, was the site of the Black Boys Rebellion — in which British soldiers and a ragtag team of Pennsylvanians waged a war over the trade of weapons and supplies to the Native Americans during an eight-month span.